JERUSALEM. 373 
architect, and adorned with columns' appear- SJjj^j^* 
ing to support the edifice, of which they are in ^- v- * 
fact themselves integral parts; the whole of 
each mausoleum being of one entire mass of 
stone. These works may therefore be consi- 
dered as belonging to sculpture rather than to 
architecture ; for, immense as are these tombs, 
they are hewn, instead of being built. The 
Doric order appears in the capitals of the 
columns : hence it has been inferred, that some 
persons have decorated these places according 
to the rules of Greek architecture since the time 
when they were originally constructed * ; but 
there is not the slightest reason for this con- 
jecture. The columns are of that antient style 
and character which yet appear among the 
works left by Ionian and Dorian colonies, in the 
remains of their Asiatic cities; particularly at 
Telmessus, where even the inscriptions denote a 
period in history long anterior to the sera when 
such a modification of these antient structures 
(3) " The ornaments of this sepulchre {Ahscdom's) consist of twenty- 
four semi-columns of the Doric order, not fluted, six on each front of 
the monument." Chateaubriand's Travels, vol. II. p. 100. Lo7id. 1811. 
(4) SeePococke'sDescript.oftlieEast,'vol.n. Lond.n45. Pococke 
described the columns as of the Ionic order, and so designed them. 
According to Notes in the author's Journal, they are Doric; and they 
are so described by Mons. De Chdtemihriand. See Trav. in Greece^ 
Palast. &(c. J). 1 00. Lond. 1811. 
